This is a discussion going on the board right now that I found interesting...
The thread starter says:
"I track all my cash transactions and over the past 4 or 5 years of engaging in this business. I have spent over $80K, not counting the many Louis Vuitton bags and other gifts that I bought along the way for those special ladies that touched my heart and other parts.
So the question is how much has this hobby cost you, if you dare keep track."
My first reaction was DAMMIT! I wish I had that much money to put into a "hobby" or anything for that matter! Then I began to think about the other question, "Do you keep track?"
Well I can only speak from the other side of the whole deal when I give my answer-and though I dont think it was where the guy who asked initially was going with it-I would like to answer anyways.
I never knew when I went into this job exactly what I was sacraficing. I mean though it is not who I am it is truly just my job, it still has its own way of affecting the rest of my life all the same. I mean any friendship, or relationship I decide I want to enter eventually, the other person will have to know(assuming I want it to last for any amount of time)...If I don't tell them they wll find out anyways so in many situations this factor has prevented me from letting several folks close to me that I may have wanted to otherwise. I have had to say goodbye to a lot of toher things also but the one mentioned I feel is the most signifigant to me.
Now I said all that so I could say this:
For me it isn't so much about what the hobby has cost me as it is what it has given me. For reference (and so I don't have to retype what has already been said:
this was my round about way of replying to that one there on the board. If you have a few min go and read it. It ain't all bad and really its what I think of when I think of the cost/benifit of being involved with the industry, for me anyways.
I guess it goes back to the mindset, it doesnt matter how good bad or indfiferent something is that happens to you or your life, just so long as you take every positive thing you can from it and maybe even learn some things, then it didn't happen for nothing. I see this time in my life as a wonderful gift and I have been blessed to experience so much. And yes I am learning from it on a minute by minute basis.
Now for some random nonsense as to lighten things up a bit:
The thread starter says:
"I track all my cash transactions and over the past 4 or 5 years of engaging in this business. I have spent over $80K, not counting the many Louis Vuitton bags and other gifts that I bought along the way for those special ladies that touched my heart and other parts.
So the question is how much has this hobby cost you, if you dare keep track."
My first reaction was DAMMIT! I wish I had that much money to put into a "hobby" or anything for that matter! Then I began to think about the other question, "Do you keep track?"
Well I can only speak from the other side of the whole deal when I give my answer-and though I dont think it was where the guy who asked initially was going with it-I would like to answer anyways.
I never knew when I went into this job exactly what I was sacraficing. I mean though it is not who I am it is truly just my job, it still has its own way of affecting the rest of my life all the same. I mean any friendship, or relationship I decide I want to enter eventually, the other person will have to know(assuming I want it to last for any amount of time)...If I don't tell them they wll find out anyways so in many situations this factor has prevented me from letting several folks close to me that I may have wanted to otherwise. I have had to say goodbye to a lot of toher things also but the one mentioned I feel is the most signifigant to me.
Now I said all that so I could say this:
For me it isn't so much about what the hobby has cost me as it is what it has given me. For reference (and so I don't have to retype what has already been said:
this was my round about way of replying to that one there on the board. If you have a few min go and read it. It ain't all bad and really its what I think of when I think of the cost/benifit of being involved with the industry, for me anyways.
I guess it goes back to the mindset, it doesnt matter how good bad or indfiferent something is that happens to you or your life, just so long as you take every positive thing you can from it and maybe even learn some things, then it didn't happen for nothing. I see this time in my life as a wonderful gift and I have been blessed to experience so much. And yes I am learning from it on a minute by minute basis.
Now for some random nonsense as to lighten things up a bit:
